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Sunday, September 4th, 2011
Canon PIXMA iX7000 Printer Review
The Canon PIXMA iX7000 is actually Canon’s second business-focussed A3 inkjet printer, and it’s one of the most costly available on the market.
Large, slow and also noisy, the iX7000 provides automated duplex as well as network connectivity, and it also creates excellent high quality A4 and A3 output.
The iX7000 offers three media input choices: a cassette, a rear tray and a single-sheet manual feed. The input cassette lacks changeable guides to suit media of various widths, and also the height manipulation does not match a single thing more compact than A4.
The rear paper tray can just be selected as a paper source when printing pictures and isn’t obtainable when using the standard print dialogue. There’s no method to change the paper supplier directly from the iX7000 either (this can make it hard to pick your sought after input source whenever printing on a network, unless you put in the printer drivers).
The printer has both USB 2. and Ethernet connections. Its other standout element is surely an auto duplexer, that can print double-sided A3 documents along with A4. Another A3 inkjet to provide an automated duplexer, Brother’s MFC-6890CDW, can only print double-sided A4 documents.
The Canon PIXMA iX7000 printer ink cartridges are pigment-based which supplies radiant colours for both documents and also photographs. A clear ink is layered over printouts to prevent water harm as well as fading.
Though the iX7000 can certainly put ink to page rapidly, it tends to temporarily stop in between pages. It is important to take note that draft documents from the PIXMA iX7000 are not the washed out rush jobs that some other Printers generate. In fact, draft documents happen to be legible and may possibly end up being useful for rapidly creating documents regarding your office. In general the A3 inkjet printer prints comparatively slowly, but can nonetheless spit out three to four A3 documents per minute, which is more than what several rivals are able to claim.
Unfortunately, the iX7000 is particularly noisy. It produces a notable bang anytime it retrieves a page from the cassette, that will get annoying inside a peaceful office environment.
At its very best, the iX7000 A3 inkjet printer generates radiant colours that happen to be better fitted to glossy media compared to matte paper. Normal A4 documents can seem inky and over-saturated, although they are really still understandale. This isn’t as obvious any time documents are scaled to A3 (aided by the print drivers); text is precise and also conveniently understandable across different font sizes.
The iX7000 truly stands out when ever producing A4 pictures: it makes extremely deep blacks as well as lively, accurate colours with no aberrations. Regrettably, A3 photos tend to be somewhat without depth, which could be caused by the fairly low 4800×1200 dpi print resolution.
Canon’s PIXMA iX7000 A3 inkjet printer isn’t really the best option for generating business documents on matte media. Although automated duplexing as well as Ethernet connectivity are definitely handy, restrictions with media input in addition to its print rates of speed as well as overall output quality hinder this particular printer. Nonetheless, those searching for a networked printer exclusively for glossy presentation documents plus the occasional A4 photograph should benefit.
Canon PIXMA iX7000 ink cartridges can be found here.
About the Author
I am a long time member of the Cartridge Concept team which specialises in <a href=”http://www.cartcon.co.uk/”> Canon PIXMA iX7000 ink cartridges</a>.
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